RetroNov 13MkS_Vir and AVG shipped DOS virus zoos with defanged viruses you could watch, including one that flushed your screen like a toilet
GamingNov 13David Given ported the BBC Micro's Elite to the Commodore PET, which has no bitmap screen, as a 64x35 grid
SoftwareNov 13A 1985 Windows 1.0 pre-release build from Tulip's predecessor CompuData just landed on the Internet Archive
HardwareNov 12The Z-80 is an 8-bit chip with a 4-bit ALU, and Ken Shirriff's silicon teardown shows how
SoftwareNov 1A free 512-byte boot-sector program, bootgpt, boots a PC straight into a neural network that dreams fake Linux logs
RetroOct 31Commodore's 1600 VICmodem Was the First Modem Under $100, and You Dialed by Hand, Then Plugged In the Handset Cord
RetroOct 28Jan de Jager's Browser Emulator Builds a Whole 486 PC, Motherboard, Jumpers and Plug-In Cards, Then Boots DOOM in One Tab
RetroOct 27The Oldest GUI Program Still Running on Windows 11 Is a 1992 NT Beta CD Player That Borrowed the System's C Runtime
RetroOct 27CuriousMarc taught a 1976 MMD-1 trainer board to pass for an Altair and run Microsoft's first BASIC
RetroOct 25Encarta 95 Web boots a whole Windows 95 in your browser just to open Microsoft's old encyclopedia
